New Testament Social Ethics for Today

<I>This is a <a href=http://www.eerdmans.com/Pag%20es/About/Books-on-%20Demand.aspx>print on demand</a> book and is therefore non- returnable.</I><BR /><BR /> To answer the question of what role the New Testament should play in the formation and expression of Christian social morality today Richard Longenecker here proposes a developmental hermeneutic which distinguishes between "declared principles" and "described practices" in the New Testament writings.<BR /><BR /> With this distinction in mind he focuses on the three couplets of Galatians 3:28 — "neither Jew nor Greek slave nor free male nor female" — showing how these matters were treated in early Christian thought and explaining their meaning for us today. In so doing Longenecker lays a hermeneutical foundation for the much larger discussion of Christian social ethics.